When we have arrived at a degree of understanding of Truth (represented by "when Moses was grown") we are zealous for our principles, to the point of destroying anything that interferes with their freedom. The thought that seeks to destroy those who oppose us reacts, and we find our own people in contention. This leads to self-examination and to the revelation that we have been in great error and tried to hide our sin in the deceptions of matter. This sin calls down on us the wrath of the moral law, and Truth is obscured from us for a season. But "he sat down by a well." The all-possibility is about to manifest from another viewpoint -- the well of living water within the soul. (Exod. 2:1-15.)

Moses symbolizes this progressive or drawing-out process, which works from within outward; as applied to the universe, the upward trend of all things--the evolutionary law. In our interpretation we observe the working of the law in the individual, because it is there that we bring home the lesson, and through intelligent use of the hints given we apply it to ourselves with great profit.

In our communion in the silence with the light within us, the bondage of the higher to the lower is made clear to us and the true way of release is indicated. We see the possibilities of man, and the goodness of that Promised Land to which we can raise our thought. But Moses was very meek: we feel our inability and say, "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt ?" Then we have the assurance of God's power with us: "Certainly I will be with thee." It is in this recognition of the power and presence of God that all our strength and ability lie. Jesus said, "I speak not from myself: but the Fatherabiding in me doeth his works."

Moses, the law, ever urges man forward to greater expressions of inherent abilities, but the law requires adherence to certain principles, as it urges the children of the real to go forward. Moses, in Joshua 1:1, 2, represents the evolutionary force of new ideas that have grown in the subconsciousness until they have lifted Israel (our true, spiritual thoughts) out of the depths of sense (Egyptian) bondage into a higher life expression. He has led the new ideas safely through the wilderness of our untried and undisciplined mind to the border of Canaan; then he gives up his leadership to Joshua.